Google’s highly anticipated AI chatbot, Gemini, has faced a delay in its launch due to its inability to handle non-English queries effectively. The decision to postpone the launch was made by Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, who canceled a series of planned events in California, New York, and Washington. The delay is seen as an attempt by Google to address the challenges faced by the AI in handling non-English queries. Gemini was expected to be a significant addition to Google’s AI portfolio, with the company aiming to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving AI market. The launch has been discreetly rescheduled to January, and Google is taking a cautious approach to ensure a flawless launch of Gemini to the public.
Gemini is a new AI model from Google that is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas. Gemini is a “natively multimodal” model, meaning it can learn from data beyond text. Google promises that Bard, its AI-powered chatbot, will become more intuitive and better at tasks that involve planning with the help of Gemini. Gemini’s biggest advances won’t come until early next year when its Ultra model will be used to power Google’s search engine. The AI, at first, will only work in English throughout the world, although Google executives assured reporters during a briefing that the technology will have no language barriers.
The delay in Gemini’s launch is seen as an attempt by Google to catch up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has gained attention for its advanced language processing capabilities. The delay of Gemini’s launch comes as OpenAI also recently pushed back the unveiling of its custom GPT store. The company attributed the delay to its ongoing efforts to make improvements to the GPTs.
The postponement of the launch of Gemini is a significant development in the field of AI, and it highlights the challenges faced by tech companies in developing AI systems that can effectively handle input from other languages. Google’s release of Gemini, claimed to be a fundamentally new kind of AI model and the company’s most powerful to date, suggests that a new AI winter isn’t coming anytime soon.
